MUSEUM PEACH PINK HALITE GREAT SALT LAKE UT MINERAL-CAB
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Peach Colored Halite (NEW FIND) - Location: West Side of Great Salt Lake ̧ Utah. Museum Size & Quality. we have a museum size and quality peach colored halite specimen from our new peach colored halite discovery (discovered on October 23rd ̧ 2007) from the State of Utah. This specimen is a much larger museum size and quality specimen that we are now offering for the first time on eBay. These light peachy-orange colored halite crystals come from a small isolated body of water from the west side of the Great Salt Lake. This small remote area was just discovered in late October 2007. Utah's Great Salt Lake (and surrounding areas) is world famous for halite crystals showing the skeletal 'hopper' habit of crystal growth. In order for halite crystals to grow to sizable crystals (1 to 2 inch range or more) the halite must have some type of 'structure' or foreign object on which the crystals can 'seed' and begin to grow ̧ otherwise ̧ in the absence of anything upon which the crystals can seed upon ̧ the halite crystals will seldom exceed 1⁄4 inch or so. In this isolated area t are numerous dead trees and the halite crystals 'seeded' and grew on tree branches that either fell into the water or were probably blown into the water during a storm. The peach color of the halite comes from salt loving bacteria that release beta carotene (the same
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